{"id":253904,"date":"2026-07-26T19:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=253904"},"modified":"2026-07-27T21:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:12:24","slug":"h-e-ambassador-prof-yakubu-mahmood-hosted-a-delegation-from-the-gas-exporting-countries-forum-gecf-led-by-its-secretary%e2%80%91general-dr-philip-mshelbila-a-distinguished-nigerian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/h-e-ambassador-prof-yakubu-mahmood-hosted-a-delegation-from-the-gas-exporting-countries-forum-gecf-led-by-its-secretary%e2%80%91general-dr-philip-mshelbila-a-distinguished-nigerian\/","title":{"rendered":"H.E. Ambassador (Prof. ) Yakubu Mahmood, hosted a delegation from the Gas Exporting Countries Forum &hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the State of Qatar, His Excellency, Ambassador (Prof. ) Yakubu Mahmood, hosted a delegation from the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), led by its Secretary\u2011General, Dr. Philip Mshelbila, a distinguished Nigerian. The Forum\u2019s Secretariat is headquartered in Doha, and Nigeria\u2019s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, currently serves as Chairman of its ministerial meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the State of Qatar, &hellip; <a title=\"H.E. Ambassador (Prof. ) Yakubu Mahmood, hosted a delegation from the Gas Exporting Countries Forum &hellip;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/h-e-ambassador-prof-yakubu-mahmood-hosted-a-delegation-from-the-gas-exporting-countries-forum-gecf-led-by-its-secretary%e2%80%91general-dr-philip-mshelbila-a-distinguished-nigerian\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">H.E. Ambassador (Prof. ) Yakubu Mahmood, hosted a delegation from the Gas Exporting Countries Forum &hellip;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mfa-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253906,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253904\/revisions\/253906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}